These picks are highly subjective and totally dependent on where I have travelled. TEN BEST IN CHOREOGRAPHY Most haunting, beautiful, and beguiling: Christopher Wheeldon’s In the Golden Hour, part of San Francisco Ballet’s New Works Festival Best new vision of global interchange: Bahok by Akram Khan with members of his company as […]
New Role “Better to retire five years too early than five minutes too late,” is an adage of the ballet world that has been taken to heart by Sergei Filin, one of the Bolshoi Ballet’s greatest stars of the past two decades. Filin blended technical finesse with the strength for which the Bolshoi is known, […]
The Pilobolus dancers hurl themselves with great force at the floor in Megawatt. Even from the back of the theater you can see their well-defined limbs. The same goes for the biceps of the women of Richmond Ballet as they perform John Butler’s Carmina Burana. And you can’t ignore the muscularity of Hubbard Street Dance […]
Judging by the reps of current companies, you’d think there was nothing between Petipa and Balanchine. But in between those two giants was Michel Fokine. His ballets had the breath of life in them, compared to the mere pageantry of Petipa. I know, I know, Petipa was a great and prolific choreographer who gave us […]
Got $20? Or even $10? Skip the dinner date and spend your bucks on the ballet! The Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, CA, is offering student rush tickets to all performances of Diana Vishneva: Beauty in Motion. This triple-ballet world premiere runs Feb. 13–17 and promises to be an event to remember. […]
How can one ballerina be ethereal and sexy at the same time? Just watch Diana Vishneva dance and you’ll know. She is an astonishing parcel of opposites: strong and delicate, authoritative and vulnerable, energetic and wistful. Now, while still dancing with some of the great companies of the world—American Ballet Theatre, the Kirov, La Scala—she […]
In the ultimate fairy-tale ballet, Aurora is the ultimate fairy-tale princess. The role offers challenges both technical and artistic. Dance Magazine asked seven ballerinas, several of whom have performed in more than one version of the ballet, about how they have tackled it. The interviews were conducted by Katia Bachko, Khara Hanlon, Sonja Kostich, Wendy […]
In Portland, OR, the fall dance season begins outdoors with members of Streb leaping on a trampoline in Pioneer Square. In Berkeley, CA, activities start indoors at Zellerbach Hall with the National Ballet of China offering the West Coast premiere of Raise the Red Lantern. At New York’s Joyce Theater, Philadanco swings in for a […]
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